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THE preservation of documents, pictures and other records of historical importance is a problem of grave importance to librarians arid others. The Royal Photographic Society in 1927 appointed a committee to recommend methods for the preservation of photographic records (Phot. J., 67, 498-499; 1927). The report of this committee contained a very useful set of recommendations. It directed attention, however, to the fact that photography itself is so young that little can be said as to the ultimate ‘staying power’ of photographic records. The problem of permanence usually involves two main factors; the behaviour of the base and that of the characters or designs recorded upon it. The common bases used in photography vary greatly in stability, as may be judged by mentioning a few; glass, paper, celluloid. On the other hand, different types of photographic image show just as great variety. Other records, not photographic, present similar variations.
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Permanent Documents. Nature 132, 814 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132814a0
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